On Tuesday, October 15, 2024, the Canadian government placed the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network on Canada’s terrorist entities list for advocating for Palestinian rights in the occupied territories and Israeli prisons.
Placing Samidoun on the terrorist entities list undermines freedom of association, freedom of expression and due process in the courts. “The list reinforces a double standard of allowing violence and the repression of civil liberties, in the name of fighting terrorism, on the part of Canada and its allies, while criminalizing reaction to that violence, or even peaceful criticism of that violence,” according to the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group.
We encourage IWW members and supporters in Canada to sign the Group’s petition to abolished the terrorist entities list.